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Congratulations to SBS lab member Rosina Adhikari on passing her Ph.D. comprehensive exam. Her research is focused on addressing challenges in climate resilience and building decarbonization with specific emphasis on low-income communities. She has worked on multiple U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and National Science Foundation (NSF) projects. She has also published several conference papers. Rosina joins several of our lab members who have recently passed their Ph.D, comprehensive exams.
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Nearly 30 experts from the US, Republic of Ireland, and Northern Ireland attended the U.S.-Ireland Workshop on Multi-Scale Building Energy Performance Prediction at the University College Dublin. The participants were from a wide variety of backgrounds including government, academia, national laboratories, industries, and non-profit organizations. They discussed the challenges and opportunities in modeling for building energy performance in the three jurisdiction. We are happy to see this workshop be so successful and look forward to the continued collaborations and new collaborations that can come from this.
The workshop was a spin-off of our joint project “U.S.-Ireland R&D Partnership: Intelligent Data Harvesting for Multi-Scale Building Stock Classification and Energy Performance Prediction” with James O’Donnell at University College Dublin and Neil Hewitt at Ulster University. We were glad to have Ph.D. students Rosina Adhikari and Jiyuan Sui as well as undergraduate students Almila Meng and Alex Pan join the workshop. This was a great opportunity for several of our students to learn from the experts. We are extremely grateful to National Science Foundation, Science Foundation Ireland, and Department of Economy NI for sponsoring this research.
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The Lab received a total of 6 prestigious awards at the SimBuild 2024 conference in Denver:
We greatly appreciate all of the support from mentors and advisors as well as the support of colleagues and collaborators throughout the industry. This conference was a great experience for our current and former lab members to network and learn with others in the industry.
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Congratulations to Rosina Adhikari for receiving the generous scholarship from IBPSA-USA which supports her in traveling to the SimBuild 2024 conference. Rosina is performing her Ph.D. research in building energy modeling and applications. This year we are sedining 6 students to the SimBuild conference this year and are excited to see how much they learn from experts at this conference.